The debate should end...for now

The Press-Gazette allows readers to comment on stories. Each day, it inevitably ends with the "Good Ted" vs. "Bad Ted" debate. I'm no fan of Ted's, as you know, but I posted this below. It's a bit like yacht design. You can argue the merits of this or that, but once the race begins, GRAB A LINE!
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Reading the comments above you would swear the Packers lost the game against Philly.

Hey folks...the team is ahead of the Bears!

I'm one of the original members of a fire Ted Thompson website, so I'm no fan of Ted's, but I've come to the realization that regardless of what decisions have been made it's time to suck it up and go with it.

Quite honestly, I like the idea of a defensive-oriented team with good special teams. That took the Bears to the Super Bowl last year. It's been a long time since great defense was played here and you can't be a winner for long without it.

For all of you fixated on eye-popping offensive numbers consider this:
You can win the Super Bowl and never score a touchdown all season.
In theory, if your defense doesn't allow a point, all you need is a safety or a field goal to win the game. The goal is to win the game, not run up your fantasy numbers.

So if the Packers defense keeps the team in the game, the Packers have a chance to win ugly. An ugly win in the Super Bowl is still a championship!

Strong defense is necessary and we have a good one, but we're not good enough to make up for offensive mistakes and multiple 3 and outs. There are still plenty of holes in our defense and I don't think that we can relay on the defense to save us everytime.

The keys at this point are:
1) defense stays strong and healthy
2) special teams plays steady - not giving up big returns
3) OL plays strong for run and pass, which allows the offense to click

#1 and 2 happened on Sunday and we won because #2 actually produced points/turnovers, while the D held the Eagles in check. Now if our OL comes together, we will have a very good team to push for the playoffs.

Basically, there's 3 phases to the game and we need to be strong in each in order to take the next step.

Honestly, I don't see any holes right now. It's still too early to tell about some players who have yet to prove themselves, but at this point I'm optimistic. There is no Marquand Manuel, and no KGB, who became a major liability against the run when he began to wear down about halfway through last season. Poppinga had problems in pass coverage early last season, but he's been pretty good since then. Also, we don't have Ahmad Carroll playing the nickel, we have Jarret Bush, who looks pretty good so far. Also, I think Johnny Jolly brings more to the table at DT than Corey Williams and Colin Cole did, plus we still have those guys.

There's little depth at safety or LB, but as long as there are no major injuries at those spots (knock on wood) I just don't see any major weaknesses.

The way our D looked...........if our O improves at all (which i think it will) we should be able to win the division, and then who knows?
I think Jennings and Morency will help alot. And they both had another week to recover, and we won without them! WITH them we should be greatly improved.
And i think MM is gonna be all OVER the o-line this week in practice.
We will see the results come sunday!

I like how you ignore things when it helps your argument. That's very Depack and Pyledriver80 of you.

tromadz said:

When your defense does that, the offense gets the ball a lot more to do things, which is why the Colts won the TOP battle with 38:04 to 21:56

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Because of their DEFENSIVE takeaways, the Colts offense had the ball damn near TWICE AS MUCH as the Bears, allowing them to run a LOT of offensive plays. Nobody said the Colts offense was bad.

You FAIL.

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tell me flaming spell checker, what did i fail at? the first takeaway resulted in a punt, the second was a fumble on special teams, which had nothing to do with the colts defense, the third was a fumble by benson, but that led to a punt. I know reggie wayne caught a long pass for a TD. it was at least 50 yards. what did i lose at again. you are so silly. FSC that should be your new nickname. hahahahahaha!

I really wish we could stop bickering. It's amazing that we beat the Eagles, shutting down one of the best offenses in the league (2nd last year), and people are still complaining. Our offense will improve, no doubt about it.

Nah, I put the jagoff on block. I just hope nobody quotes him because I'll be able to read his stupidity.

I've argued with a lot of stupid people but this guy takes the cake.

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I think of several far worse than he. If he'd jus tone his aggression down he'd have more people listening and less people wanting to see him get banned. Hopefully he can turn it around. I mean, gosh, football season is upon us. The Packers WON at HOME. Against a good team too!